Beads used in prehistoric and historical times to exchange for goods, services and slaves
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Trade beads from ca. 1740, found in a Wichita village site in present-day OklahomaNineteenth-century European trade beads found in AlaskaChugach woven spruce-root hat
Trade beads are beads that were used as a medium of barter within and amongst communities. They are considered to be one of the earliest forms of trade between members of the human race. It has also been surmised that bead trading was one of the reasons why humans developed language.[1]
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Tradebeads are beads that were used as a medium of barter within and amongst communities. They are considered to be one of the earliest forms of trade...
threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 millimeter (0.039 in) to over 1 centimeter (0.39 in) in diameter. Beads represent some of the earliest...
Seed beads or rocailles are uniformly shaped, spheroidal beads ranging in size from under a millimeter to several millimeters. Seed bead is also a generic...
placed into a cooling chamber. Glass beads for jewellery have traditionally been made in Hebron. Blue beads and glass beads with 'eyes' (owayneh) were made...
into beads or discs when cooled. Mille-fleur, a French term used to refer to a background composed of small flowers Venetian beadsTradebeads for the...
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17751. These beads are identical with beads found in the Indus Civilization site of Dholavira. Egyptian necklace with biconical carnelian beads, rolled strips...
Tibetan necklaces dzi beads are usually flanked with coral. Sometimes they are also worn with amber and turquoise beads. The bead is considered to provide...
rings. Beads may be large or small; the smallest type of beads used are known as seed beads, these are the beads used for the "woven" style of beaded jewellery...
Glass bead making has long traditions, with the oldest known beads dating over 3,000 years. Glass beads have been dated back to at least Roman times....
accidentally. Glass beads (a.k.a. Murano beads) were made by the Venetians beginning in the 1200s. The beads were used as rosary beads and jewelry. They...
Etched carnelian beads Etched carnelian beads, or sometimes bleached carnelian beads, are a type of ancient decorative beads made from carnelian with...
shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. In New York, wampum beads have been discovered dating...
by Spanish, English, and American explorers. The Chugach have at times traded with or fought against neighboring groups, the Eyak, Ahtna, and the Tlingit...
and abalone were prized trade items for jewelry. Bones provided material for beads as well, especially long, cylindrical beads called hair pipes, which...
stringing, bead embroidery, bead crochet, bead knitting, and bead tatting. The art of creating and utilizing beads is ancient, and ostrich shell beads discovered...
coins History of the rupee History of the United States dollar Manillas Tradebeads Denise Schmandt-Besserat Archived 27 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine...
slidable beads (or similar objects). In their earliest designs, the beads could be loose on a flat surface or sliding in grooves. Later the beads were made...
women of the Wichita worked with the Pueblo to harvest crops and engage in trade. Pueblo women were recorded to have intermarried with Wichita people and...
formed in 1295. In February 2021, the world learned that Venetian glass tradebeads had been found at three prehistoric Inuit sites in Alaska, including...
having use-value as body ornamentation. The distinction between beads as commodities and beads as money has been the subject of debate among economic anthropologists...
impact research, tradebeads, aboriginal burial customs, and the Columbia Basin area. Sprague was president of the Society of Bead Researchers from 2004-2007...
expedition stopped in Telfair County. Artifacts found here include nine glass tradebeads, some of which bear a chevron pattern made in Venice for a limited period...
religious objects. A Northern Ute Beaded Pipebag. This pipebag— made from brain-tanned mule-deer hide, glass tradebeads, and eagle bone—incorporates the...
two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads on each rod in the bottom deck. The beads are usually rounded and made of a hardwood. The beads are...
Oka, R., 2008, The tradeing of Ancient Glass Beads: New Analytical data from South Asian and East African Soda-Alumina Glass Beads, Archaeometry, 50(5)...
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